Claire Snyder, MHS, PhD, associate professor of medicine and oncology with a joint appointment in health policy and management at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, discusses patient-reported outcome assessments and standardization of questionnaires.

Research has demonstrated that doctors and nurses can provide better care if patients complete questionnaires about their functioning and well-being.

Tailoring questionnaires to the needs that are most relevant to the individual patient is critical, Snyder says, but it’s also thought about in terms of comparative effectiveness research in which one can pool data across patients and link it with other clinical information. Therefore, there needs to be a balance between customization and standardization of patient-reported questionnaires.

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Claire Snyder on Patient-Reported Outcome Questionnaires

Claire Snyder, MHS, PhD, associate professor of medicine and oncology with a joint appointment in health policy and management at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, discusses questionnaires of patient-reported outcomes by patients and how they can lead to better treatment. 

Many of the questions cover topics that patients or physicians would not normally think to bring up to their oncologist during a visit, including the ability to participate in hobbies, sexual function, body image, and depression.

“It gives permission to both the patient and the provider to discuss certain issues like that,” Snyder said.

Claire Snyder, MHS, PhD, associate professor of medicine and oncology with a joint appointment in health policy and management at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, discusses questionnaires of patient-reported outcomes by patients and how they can lead to better treatment.Â 

Claire Snyder, MHS, PhD

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Claire Snyder on Patient-Reported Outcome Questionnaires

Claire Snyder Discusses Patient-Reported Outcome Questionnaires